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WELCOME TO HENARD METAL FABRICATORS,
INC.

Henard Metal originated from very
humble beginnings. My brother, Robert and I borrowed
money from our grandmother to buy an aquarium stand
business that Robert worked at while attending college.
After we bought the business, I became the clean up man,
grinding and painting the finished product and Robert
was the welder. We named our new aquarium stand business
Henard Ornamental Works, not realizing that potential
customers believed “ornamental” to be synonymous with
“handrails”.

As with all new businesses we struggled to make ends
meet. Robert and I were both attending Graham Bible
College full time, therefore we worked evenings and
Saturdays to fill work orders. The aquarium stand
business was manufacturing busy work, but it also
provided our initial basis for cost estimating and job
evaluations. As time passed instead of aquarium stands
we began fabricating handrails and stairs. Eventually
Robert and I took a leap of faith and devoted ourselves
full time to our growing business venture. We became
proficient at job costing to the inch of material used
and labor hours spent, to evaluate if profits were being
generated from each sale. As simple as it may sound, we
continue to evaluate each project the same way. Profits
that were earned were put back into the business in the
form of better facilities and equipment.

In 1980 we changed our name to Henard Metal Fabricators
Inc. with the intention of broadening our market in the
fabrication industry. Shortly thereafter we bid, and
were awarded, a 380 ton contract for a retirement center
(about 10 times larger than any previous work). Because
of God’s providential care, we manned up and worked 24/7
till the project was completed. We have retained this
basic foundation of steel fabrication…schedule is
critical and we do what we need to do, without
compromising quality yet meeting the owners schedule.

We have always been dedicated to hard work and when you
are working with your own money you become a willing
learner. We have many to thank for our success as a
company, especially my mentor Bill Wood, who
subcontracted part time for us for nearly 30 years. One
of the most important things I learned from Bill is that
owner, architect, structural engineer and fabricator are
working toward a common goal of finishing the project
and if a problem can be solved on paper by the
fabricator, it can eliminate a lot of headaches in the
field for everyone. Our emphasis has always been on
doing it right the first time with detailing and
fabrication because you never have the money or the time
to do it twice.

My college major was in Christian Education and although
I was not taught engineering, calculus or trigonometry,
I had to learn it by the “hands on” and “seat of your
pants” methods. From my parents and Graham Bible
College, I was given a foundation in ethics that I use
every day. My job as president and CEO of Henard Metal
is to focus on better ways to become more efficient and
effective in completing projects awarded to us.

We enjoy our work, even though we have our good days and
our bad days. We are proud of what we have accomplished.
We have great employees, with very little turn over. We
have fun, yet when it comes to our work we are very
conscientious, we strive for the best product possible
and total satisfaction on the part of our customers.